Month: July 2020

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Xubuntu and KeePassXC with no browserintegration (snap crap)

Having trouble connecting from browser on a freshly installed Xubuntu. My browser extensions in Firefox acted up. All because of snap is crap (in this regard anyways)

KeePassXC when installed in Xubuntu, uses “snap” and therefore the browser integration does not work. It has to go.

Remove the snap
Install the real thing. (Either by PPA for newest versions or normally with standard repositories.
The browser selection window is not visible in the snap version… but they are here. Enjoy.
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Skype for Linux – unsigned – breaking template updates

Package skypeforlinux_8.62.0.83-1.x86_64.rpm is not signed

My daily patching of my Qubes fedora-32 template failed, and I just found our that Skype might be the reason. I tried starting skype, and found it to be requiring of an update:

Update, pretty please…

This proved faulty, since Microsoft might have given up on Skype, their last update was unsigned and broke updates on one of my fedora-32 templates.

Has the trainee Linux enthusiast been responsible for the full delivery?

Then I tried forcing the install, since I trusted the package origin, but I saw that the quality of the package might be below par(it does work, though), so I chose to part with Skype for now:

Updating / installing…
1:skypeforlinux-8.62.0.83-1 ################################# [100%]
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start atd.service
Failed to start atd.service: Unit atd.service not found.

Goodbye Skype. Maybe we will meet again some day out of nostalgia alone.

Remember to remove the repo also, if you really mean it 🙂

/etc/yum.repos.d/skype-stable.repo